Today I had to watch my six year old niece again for a few hours, which means I got to have fun exerting my influence over her. She always spends the first half hour of each visit begging me to put on the Disney Channel - I think Miley Cyrus is a bad influence - until she finally accepts that I won't do it and sits down. I managed to get her to calm down early today by putting on an old MadTV rerun. A commercial came on with a man and a woman kissing and for some reason, she started saying, "Marriage is bad for people." I was a little surprised by that, but told her I agreed. I'm wondering if she was repeating some reason her mother might have given her for why she never married her father...
After that we watched music videos for a while. I asked her if she thought Rihanna looked like an alien - because I do sometimes - and she agreed. Then we drew pictures together of Rihanna as an alien, and they actually came out pretty good. At one point I saw there was a documentary about President Andrew Jackson on and I switched to it to see how she would react. I told her she should try to draw a picture of him but instead, and I swear I didn't say anything to put this into her head, she drew a picture of two Native American girls crying.
I'm waiting to hear what her mother thinks of the drawings.
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Ages ago, when I was of baby sitting age, I was sitting for a youngster who was in a baby seat. I tied him in front of the Boris Spassky - Bobby Fischer Chess Match and made him watch. Wonder if he's a prodigy by now and no one will ever know why.
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